GREAT Blood Pressure!

I guess when I was little, I would constantly be checking the gas gauge from my booster in the backseat to see how much gas the car had. I had a HUGE fear of running out of gas. My dad finally starting telling me that the temperature gauge was actually the gas gauge, so I always thought we were at least half full. :)

I also remember my dad and I rented a movie at the little mini-market one day and I got a grape pop and my dad got a strawberry pop. We got in the car to drive home and I was sooooooo excited to drink my pop. My dad opened his and took a few swigs as we cruised up Lakeway Drive. I remember by dad asking why I was digging my fingernails into my legs and tapping my feet up and down while I CLENCHED my pop. I told him that I couldn't believe he was "drinking and driving" and that I was so nervous because we were breaking the law. :) Apparently I thought the law pertained to soda pop too, not just booze :)

Needless to say, while my anxiety was easier to see as I got older, I must have always been a busy, anxious gal :)

With the help of my lovely medicine and my psychologist, I am finally learning to just caaalllllmmm down.

Want proof? Of course you are so interested in my life that you want proof :)

Yesterday I had my annual, yearly, whatever they are called, doctor's appointment.

Let me first say. Prettttyy sure everyone at that place knows me by name and probably dreads answering the phone when they see it's me calling ;)

-Once they called to let me know that I had missed my appointment (I had thought it was 12/21 but it was really 12/12) and I cried hysterically for an hour that they would never let me come back and they would "fire" me as a patient. I called like three separate times to apologize but each time they assured me it was okay ;)

-For a few years I would NOT drink tap water because I read that Bellingham tap water was fluorinated. I also had read that fluoride weakened my thyroid medicine and made it less effective. LESS EFFECTIVE THYROID MEDICINE = WEIGHT GAIN. So of course, the only logical thing was to not drink ANY water that wasn't bottles and free from fluoride. So when I talked to the lovely office girl at my dr. office, she politely directed me to the water district website where I so learned, in fact, my tap water is not fluoridated ;)

-I called them when my dentist informed me I did not have ANY wisdow teeth to make sure that was normal. The dental hygientist kept telling me to, "consider yourself lucky! No surgery or anything!" I wasn't quite so sure until I heard it from my Dr. :)

-Numerous times I have forced them to check my blood sugar levels (only to find they are just fine :)

-This office has dealt with my 20 pound weight swings from year to year, and when I told them I couldn't sleep unless I had ran at least 4 miles :)

So needless to saaaaaay, I am sure they were all pleased as punch to see my name on the schedule Saturday morning :)

I. HAD. NOTHING. TO. TALK. ABOUT! :) :)
It was by FAR the shortest appointment I had every had there :) We chatted and I was off :)

I even told her how weird I felt not bringing in my list of questions. :)

Today I am grateful for good health, doctors and Prozac:)
oh AND... I have OUTSTANDING blood pressure, in case you were wondering ;)